Man, the woman was non-stop
Today…
is Constitution Day, marking the day the constitution was signed in 1787.
is the birthday of civil rights activist, suffragist, educator, native Ohioan and Oberlin graduate Mary Burnett Talbert (1866-1923). She did so much, I don’t even know where to start. Know a hospital or university building named Talbert? Probably after her. She co-founded the Niagara Movement, precursor to the NAACP. If there were more than two women in a room, she was probably at the front, talking and organizing - if those women were Black, she was definitely there.
I like this, too: “As a historic preservation pioneer, Talbert saved the Frederick Douglass home in Anacostia, D.C. after other efforts had failed.”
She has a good teacher face, doesn’t she. I’m seeing, “Ms. Perrone, is there something you wanted to share with the class?” “No ma’am, sorry ma’am.”
My head went from Constitution Day to a certain junior New York delegate because I am nothing if not predictable, but I think Mary Burnett Talbert would have given him for a run for his money.
Abortion
Trump's latest gift to evangelicals: Cutting women's health even more
Lisa Needham | The American Independent
On Monday, the Trump administration proposed expanding its anti-abortion foreign policy again, further restricting foreign organizations' abilities to provide comprehensive reproductive health care. It's an unnecessary and cruel move given that there are already laws in place that bar the use of American taxpayer money for abortion in any country, even if the procedure is legal there.
Tammy Duckworth Agreed To Help Confirm 2 Anti-Choice Judges. In The End, She Couldn't.
Jennifer Bendery | HuffPost
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Wednesday ditched an agreement with the White House and Republicans to support two anti-abortion judicial nominees from her state, instead voting against both.
Inside the Anti-Abortion Movement's 'Feminist' Quest to End the Pill
Molly Osberg | Jezebel
In the expansive, invigorated world of the modern anti-abortion movement, the Catholic position on the Pill has been mainstreamed and tumbled together with longstanding anxieties about feminism’s destructive effect on the family.
The Complicated Importance Of Abortion To Trump Voters
Danielle Kurtzleben | NPR
In a year when Americans are thinking about recession, a pandemic, racial justice, climate change, and policing, Trump voters (or potential Trump voters) repeatedly in interviews brought up abortion in explaining their voting decisions.
The Trump campaign is touting its anti-abortion agenda. Here's what's at stake
Shefali Luthra | USA Today
With the November election weeks away, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is leaning on his anti-abortion record — emphasizing reproductive health on the campaign trail as well as at August’s RNC.
‘Unpregnant’ and the Cathartic Beauty of the Hollywood Abortion-Comedy
Melissa Leon | The Daily Beast
For the characters in Unpregnant and for many women, abortion is just one part of life. So are bad road trips. So are complicated friendships and shitty ex-boyfriends. None of it means you can never laugh again.
Kansas
Kansas court hears arguments over "wrongful birth" law
Roxana Hegeman | AP
The Kansas Supreme Court seemed worried Wednesday about the proper roles of the Legislature and courts as it wrestled with whether a state statute that prohibits lawsuits based on “wrongful birth” claims is constitutional. A lower appeals court had earlier held that the statute — signed into law by then-Gov. Sam Brownback in 2013— protects physicians from malpractice suits if they fail to provide information about fetal abnormalities that might cause the mother to get an abortion.
Tennessee
Tennessee defends abortion reversal law in legal challenge
Kimberlee Kruesi | AP
A Tennessee law requiring doctors to inform women that drug-induced abortions may be reversed is critical for women who may change their minds halfway through the procedure, the state’s top legal chief said.
LGBTQ
Transgender health company Plume jumps into employee benefits space
Amanda Schiavo | Employee Benefit News
Plume, a health tech company for the transgender community, is entering the employee benefits space with a voluntary health packages for companies catering to those underserved employees.
Christian Kroger employees sue for being forced to wear a heart on their uniform. They say it’s gay.
Alex Bollinger | LGBTQ Nation
The EEOC is suing Kroger on behalf of two former Christian employees for anti-Christian bias because of a “rainbow heart” on their uniforms.
Federal court rules same-sex partners are entitled to receive Social Security survivor's benefits
John Riley | Metro Weekly
A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Social Security Administration’s categorical denial of survivor’s benefits to surviving same-sex partners who were barred from marrying due to state bans on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional.
Facebook Added a Fact Check to Transphobic Ads about Sports Participation and Trans Youth
Derrick Clifton | them.
Following outcry over political advertisements that disparage the trans community, Facebook this week began issuing a fact check that now runs alongside them on their platform.
Could the parents of LGBTQ kids decide the presidential election? Advocates say yes.
Kate Sosin | USA Today
LGBTQ voters are becoming an increasingly key constituency for presidential candidates.
How the Trump administration is getting around Bostock to allow anti-trans discrimination
Chris Johnson | The Washington Blade
Trump‘s administration is limiting the Bostock ruling with respect to sex segregated spaces.
Florida
Judge Appointed to Florida Supreme Court Omitted Ties to Anti-LGBT Group When Applying
Tom Batchelor | Newsweek
The appointment of a judge to the Florida Supreme Court has been sharply criticised after it emerged she failed to declare links to a conservative Christian organization labelled an anti-LGBT "hate group."
Delaware
Winning a primary in Delaware, Sarah McBride is set to become the country’s highest-ranking transgender official.
Reid Epstein | New York Times
Delaware Democrats on Tuesday nominated Sarah McBride, a transgender rights activist, for a State Senate seat, advancing her bid to become the nation’s highest-ranking openly transgender elected official.
More from GoMag, LGBTQ Nation, Out Magazine, Metro Weekly, The 19th
Pregnancy & Parenting
Working Parents Get Some Virus-Leave Leeway in Revised DOL Rule
Robert Iafolla | Bloomberg
Working parents whose children have hybrid school schedules due to the pandemic don’t need their employers’ permission to take federal leave, the U.S. Labor Department said.
COVID-19 linked to preterm deliveries, new CDC report says
Kate Smith | CBS News
Preterm deliveries appear to be linked to coronavirus infections, according to a new study on COVID-19 and pregnancy published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Coronavirus crisis caused 40% of parents to change their job situation, survey finds
Michelle Fox | CNBC
Since the crisis began, 40% of working parents have had to change their employment situation, according to a new survey. Of those polled, 25% voluntarily reduced their hours and 15% quit entirely. Of those who quit, 38% don't plan to rejoin the workforce.
CNBC | Over 80% of hourly workers expect to lose some pay due to remote learning or lack of child care
TechRepublic | 40% of working parents had to quit or reduce their hours during pandemic
Private Tutors, Pop-Up Schools or Nothing at All: How Employers Are Helping Parents
Claire Cain Miller | The New York Times
Benefits depend on where people work, and the kind of job they have, a new survey finds, highlighting disparities that predate the pandemic.
Working moms applaud scientist who shared the honest reality behind her CNN interview
Annie Reneau | Upworthy
Kansas, Missouri Are Failing Mothers, Babies And Toddlers. Five Ways To Help Young Families
Elle Moxley | KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO)
Low-income families struggle to access health insurance, child care and adequate wages, creating stress that can impact babies throughout their childhoods.
California
Birth Justice Pilot Program In San Francisco To Address Inequalities For Pregnant Black People and Pacific Islanders
Madeleine Janz | BUST Magazine
Under a new program announced Monday by Mayor Lauren Breed, 150 pregnant Pacific Islanders and Black people in San Francisco will be allocated $1,000 monthly throughout their pregnancies and for six months postpartum.
Essence | San Francisco To Give Expecting Black Moms $1,000 Stipend
SheKnows | San Francisco to Give Mothers Money to Fix Black Maternal Mortality
Reproductive Health & Justice
A whistleblower complaint detailing ‘high rate’ of hysterectomies in ICE custody parallels grim U.S. history
Mariel Padilla | The 19th
A gynecologist performed hysterectomies on detained migrants without their full consent, according to a nurse who filed a whistleblower complaint with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General on Monday.
Why We Need A Reproductive Justice New Deal or Bill of Rights
Michele Goodwin | Ms.
The biases of poverty, sex and race have always motivated reproductive policing.
Most Sex Ed Stresses Abstinence. Here's How Parents Can Fill in the Gaps.
Steph Auteri | Rewire.News
We can’t trust that our school districts will give kids the information they need. Nor can we control where else our kids might go looking for answers.
Work & Money
Pregnancy discrimination puts women in danger. The House is about to vote on a bill to fight it
Laura Clawson | Daily Kos
The House is expected to take an important vote on Thursday, moving forward with the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. This legislation has been around for years and 30 states and DC now have protections for pregnant workers stronger than what you’ll find in the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which dates to 1978.
The shift toward remote work could leave blue-collar workers behind
Bharat Ramamurti | CNN
The work-from-home shift could also exacerbate gender divides because women are overrepresented in the kinds of lower-paid, service sector jobs that require on-site work.
Don’t Let the Pandemic Set Back Gender Equality
Anu Madgavkar, Olivia White, Mekala Krishnan, Deepa Mahajan | Harvard Business Review
Progress towards greater gender equality has been hesitant and halting over the past five years and the Covid-19 pandemic now risks sending it into reverse. Our analysis shows that women’s jobs are 1.8 times more vulnerable to this crisis than men’s jobs: Women make up 39% of global employment but account for 54% of overall job losses as of May 2020.
Does the Gender Pay Gap Between Athletes Show Any Signs of Closing?
Eric Hinton | KNBC-TV (Los Angeles, CA)
In the 2019 Forbes list of the 100 highest paid athletes Serena Williams was the only woman to make the list, tied at number 63 with total earnings of $29.2 million.
The only woman. One woman on the list of 100 highest paid athletes.
Kentucky
Separate bills filed to provide paid leave to Kentucky state workers who are new parents
Joe Sonka | The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
Two state legislators from different parties planned to prefile separate bills Wednesday that aim to provide 12 weeks of paid family leave for Kentucky state government workers who are new parents.
More from Kentucky Today, WKLY-TV
Michigan
Lawmakers speak on the gender pay gap in Michigan and call for a change
Asha Patel | WLNS-TV (Lansing, MI)
The Michigan Equal pay day coalition joined together with lawmakers to speaks on the gender pay gap.
More, More, More
Violence Against Women Act is in limbo as COVID fuels a domestic violence surge
Shefali Luthra | The 19th
As COVID-19 appears to be fueling spikes in domestic violence, the Violence Against Women Act has emerged as a focal point of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. But for now, the law remains in a legislative limbo that could have severe health impacts — particularly during the pandemic.
The Weaponizing of Religious Freedom
Sarah Posner | Moment Mag
Even before COVID, Trump’s loyalists in the Christian right hailed him as “the most pro-life” and “the most pro-religious freedom” president in history. But under Trump’s presidency, religious freedom, once considered the bedrock of our pluralistic democracy, has been fashioned into a bludgeon for a Christian nationalist agenda.
Nevada
Attorneys General, including Nevada’s Ford, sue over ERA
Geoff Dornan | Nevada Appeal
Three attorneys general including Nevada’s Aaron Ford have sued to force the Trump administration to recognize the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — the Equal Rights Amendment.
Washington
Joanne Washburn, pioneer in women’s college sports, has died
AP
Pioneering sports administrator Joanne Washburn, who spent 39 years at WSU and was involved in a landmark lawsuit to bring equality to women’s sports, has died at the age of 83. Washburn, along with 12 other coaches and 39 student athletes, filed a lawsuit in 1979 against WSU for failing to comply with Title IX. The lawsuit became a landmark women’s rights case, setting a precedent for all public four-year colleges and universities in the state.
Spokesman-Review | Influential Washington State University administrator Joanne Washburn dies at age 83